ARM Cortex-A77 Hardware Page Aggregation exposure of resource

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A vulnerability was found in ARM Cortex-A77, Neoverse V1, Cortex-A78AE, Cortex-78C, Cortex-X1C, Cortex-A78, Cortex-X1, Neoverse N2, Cortex-A710, Cortex-X2, Neoverse V2, Cortex-X3, Neoverse V3AE, Neoverse V3, Cortex-X4, Cortex-X925 and Travis and classified as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Hardware Page Aggregation. Executing a manipulation can lead to exposure of resource. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-5660. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability has been found in ARM Cortex-A77, Neoverse V1, Cortex-A78AE, Cortex-78C, Cortex-X1C, Cortex-A78, Cortex-X1, Neoverse N2, Cortex-A710, Cortex-X2, Neoverse V2, Cortex-X3, Neoverse V3AE, Neoverse V3, Cortex-X4, Cortex-X925 and Travis and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown code of the component Hardware Page Aggregation. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a exposure of resource vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-668. The product exposes a resource to the wrong control sphere, providing unintended actors with inappropriate access to the resource. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Use of Hardware Page Aggregation (HPA) and Stage-1 and/or Stage-2 translation on Cortex-A77, Cortex-A78, Cortex-A78C, Cortex-A78AE, Cortex-A710, Cortex-X1, Cortex-X1C, Cortex-X2, Cortex-X3, Cortex-X4, Cortex-X925, Neoverse V1, Neoverse V2, Neoverse V3, Neoverse V3AE, Neoverse N2 may permit bypass of Stage-2 translation and/or GPT protection.

The advisory is shared for download at developer.arm.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-5660 since 06/05/2024. The exploitation appears to be difficult. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 259378 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-5660), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (259378). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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Vendor

• ARM

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• Cortex-78C
• Cortex-A77
• Cortex-A78
• Cortex-A78AE
• Cortex-A710
• Cortex-X1
• Cortex-X1C
• Cortex-X2
• Cortex-X3
• Cortex-X4
• Cortex-X925
• Neoverse N2
• Neoverse V1
• Neoverse V2
• Neoverse V3
• Neoverse V3AE
• Travis

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• commercial

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